APA Style Guide to Electronic References (PDF)

Introduction

This Library Guide is an online version of the ECU Referencing Guide and aims to cover commonly asked referencing questions. Examples are grouped by reference type under the tabs for easy access.

Referencing is a formal, systematic way of acknowledging sources that you have used in your assignments or written essays and a way of formatting references so that they can be easily traced. The referencing style used at ECU is the APA style, 6th ed. 2010.

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Referencing - Getting started

View this short interactive video to gain the skills and confidence to reference the most common sources of information in their simplest forms; books. e-books, journal articles, websites, webpages and documents sourced from webpages.